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SEAT~ O RTH, Friday, March 9th
Easter Seals
Each Spring Ontario citizens are
given the opportunity of bringing
hope to crippled children of the Pro-
vince.
The opportunity arises through
participation 'in the campaign of the
Ontario Society for Crippled Chil-
dren to raise $625,000.
In the Seaforth district, the Sea -
forth Lions Club sponsors the cam-
paign as part of its service to the
community. To the Lions Club the
campaign is something special, for in
the days nearly thirty years ago,
when there was no provincial organ-
ization seeking out and looking after
crippled children, the local club had
as its prime objective, assistance to
the handicapped child. There are
literally hundreds of grown men and
women throughout this district who
today are able to take their place as
citizens- of the community, because
of the work of the Seaforth Lions
Club in assisting them in their youth
to overcome physical disabilities.
It is a simple matter to healp. Eas-
ter Seals will be sent you through the
mail and you mail your contribution
in the envelope provided. Then use
the Seals on your letters and parcels
to` help in spreading word of the as-
sistance being given handicapped
boys and girls, to lead more useful
and happier lives.
Walking and Health
We are not walking enough and
the Government has been asked to
do something about it.
"With the growing use of automo-
biles, walking, a most vital exercise
to general good health, has been con-
siderably curtailed over the past
years,” the Shoe Manufacturers' As-
sociation of Canada said in a brief to
the Gordon Economic Commission.
It urged the Federal Health De-
partment work with provincial and
municipal government to get more
persons to walk in national parks
and other recreative areas.
We are in hearty agreement when
the association points out that this
would -help Canadians return to the
pastime of walking and so benefit
from the fresh air and exercise which
_Aare essential to .the elation's health.
Certainly we can think of nothing
as enjoyable and as beneficial as a
brisk walk providing, of course, that
it isn't overdone. There can be in-
temperance in walking as in many
other things.
Farming Future
Looking into the future the On-
tario Federation of Agriculture sees
theday coming when -there will be
no sulpluses of Canadian farm pro-
ducts for export, so greatly increas-
ed will have become the domestic de-
mand. The Federation presented a
brief to the Gordon Economic Com-
Mission.
Anticipating a population increase
of perhaps fifty per cent by 1980, and
• a reduction, by virtue of urban
growth, in the land available for
agricultural production, the Federa-
tion suggests there may be barely en-
ough beef to meet Canadian needs
and some may have to be imported.
,,hong with beef, exports of eggs,
: Oultry and 'oats and barley may dis-
pear, as farmers are kept busy
Ieding the expanding Canadian
ojtiltioal.
use the trend towards increas-
nn estle dernanlc for agricultur-
eduets and a proportionately
ing de - €nda,nce ; on export of
usesfor agricultural stability.,
;l ent generally ;throughout O t�-
tario„ the long term outlook provides
little helpfor the farmer today.
Unable to discover any relief inso-
far as the price of things, he must
buy is concerned, the farmer proper-
ly is disturbed because the products
he sells are returning fewer dollars
to him.
And the funny part of the whole
business is that there is no saving to
the consumer, who continues to pay
as much, or more, than he did when
the returns to the farmer were con-
siderably higher. One of .the reasons-
for this, of course, is that the con-
sumer, including the farmer consum-
erz_demands today services and mar-
keting practises that even a few
years ago were not even conceived.
It costs money to individually wrap
pork chops and roasts of beef ; to
convert grain into fancy breakfast
foods for display in even fancier
boxes_
What' Other Papers Say :
.SEEN
To Lear .441( Council
When the Canadian Council 0#t
4-H Clubs convenes in Sasketott*'
on March 5-7; R,. Gordon Benne„,
associate director of etension. OA:tario Department of 'Agriculture,
will be general chairman through-
out the conference. Mr. ,Benne.t,
is a former agriculture represents.
tive for Huron County. Clinton
News -Record.
Memorial Hall Paid For
Less than a week after Clinton
Branch No. 140 'of the Canadian
Legion paid off the final mortgage
on the memorial hall, Kirk Street,
the general meeting on Monday
eight accepter the recommenda-
tion of the executive that the
property committee proceed with
the building of a stage at the hall.
Final plans are not. yet complete,
but it will be a 20x40 foot addition.
Upstairs will be a stage for the
hall, and the downstairs portion
will be used as dressing rooms and
storage space. Treasurer E. J.
Dale paid the final payment on
the hall's mortgage on February
22.—Clinton News -Record.
Contractor Wins Safety Award
Joe Kerr and his Wingham con-
struction firm were honored last
week during the Good Roads con-
vention in Toronto, when the own-
er •was presented with the third
certificate in the H. C. Routly
Memorial Safety Award. The cer-
tificate signifies that the local firm
has been selected as one of the
three construction companies in
the province which have contribut-
ed nptably to the cause of safety
on the public roads and in the op-
eration of equipment. The award
was made during the annual ban-
quet of the Ontario Road Builders'
Association at the royal York
Hotel in Toronto.—Wingham Ad-
vance -Times.
Contest For Bird Houses
An executive meeting of the
Goderich Horticultural Society was
held Wednesday evening of .last
week, with the president, H. Glenn
Hays, in the chair. At the meet-
ing it was' decided• to sponsor a
birdhouse building contest, open
to 'all school children from the age
of 10 to 16. Prizes will be award-
ed for the three best robin shel-
ters and the 'three best general
type birdhouses. Arrangements
will be made later to offer the bird-
houses for sale- An art poster con-
Country Meals
(Kitchener -Waterloo Record)
Country folk are losing a great
deal of the thing the city people Iong
for and which they think is still in
the country, claims a small town
weekly 'newspaper, "because we are
trying too lard to pattern after
them."
That may be true to some extent,
but the •city folk will still want to
visit their country cousins over a
week -end so long as they can get a
country -style -Sunday dinner.
Aged Fellows of Fifty
(Peterborough Examiner)
We are sure that Dr. Smirle Law-
son, the chief coroner of Toronto,
has the best motives in advising ev-
eryone over fifty to avoid shovelling
snow. Exertion may bring on a heart
attack, he says, and of course he is
right.
But there is more than one way of
dying, and we wonder if being put
on the sick -list, so to speak, at fifty,
may do as much harm as good? Does
it not suggest that we should coddle
ourselvesmore than is` good for us?
Nobody suggests that men should
give up golf at fifty, or give up hunt-
ing or sailing or curling, although
these pursuits involve a good deal of
exertion from time to time. It would
be ridiculous to say that a man should
abandon the sports -'of a lifetime at
fifty.
There's a Lot To Be Said on Butter!
(Ottawa Journal)
So many apparently contradictory
figures are being quoted to substan-
tiate divergent points of view on
the butter surplus problem that it is
little wonder the average citizen is
bewildered. It can be taken for
granted that a great deal more will
be heard on the subject of butter and
the wisdom of the Government's
price support policy. . Already the
subject has been referred to in sev-
eral speeches in Parliament and Mr.
James Muir, president of the Royal 1
Bank, made mention of it in his an-
nual business review.
The Dominion Bureau of Statis-
tics reports that butter stocks on
January 1st this year were 100,030,-
000 pounds, up from 91,025,000
pounds on the same date a year ago.
To arrive at any idea of what part
of storage stocks could conceivably
be considered as surplus it is neces-
sary to subtract butter required for
Winter consumption and add Winter
production. The latter is never suf-
ficient during January, February
and March to meet Winter needs in
this country. The deficiency is tak-
en from storage, butter .put- away
during flush production months.
Last year consumption in those
three months was 66.5 million
pounds, somewhere near average, for
recent years. Production was 34.3
million pounds. Unless there is some
great change this year it would ap-
pear that around 32 million pounds
would be required out of storage to
meet normal consumer requirements.
This, would leave something like 68
million pounds as surplus on April 1,
the first month when new production
usually meets consumption needs.
However what the trade terms the
"pipeline" ---butter in transit and on
retail shelveig—requires several mil-
lion pounds and it is over the size of
this .requirement that much of the
controversy centres.
test, advertising the Hi rtienitural
Society, is also to be sponsored-..
This will be open to both girls and
;boys from 10 to 1.6 years of age,
Prizes fill be awarded to the three
best posters in the contest--Gode-
rich Signal -Star.
Holstein Club Meets At Goderich
The spaciols dairy barns of Bis-
set Bros., atop picturesque Salt -
ford Heights, was the setting
Thursday; afternoon last for a barn
meeting of the Huron County Hol-
stein Club. More than 100 farmers
from all parts of Huron County
attended the event, the first of its
kind held at the Bisset Bros. farm,
In welcoming the visitors, Gordon
Bisset gave a brief review of the
farm. This included the facts that
150 dairy cattle were kept on the
farm which was made up of more
than 500 acres and that most of
the feed for the cattle wasgrown
on the farm. Chairman of the barn
meeting was Bert Dunn, Jr., Bay-
field, president of the Huron Coun-
ty Holstein Club. He was assisted
by W. Hume Clutton, R.R. 5, Gode-
rich, secretary of the club.—code=
rich Signal -Star.
New Firm To Open in Wingham
A. new firm .providing parts and
service for television dealers and
owners, the Wingham TV Factory
Service Depot, will open offices in
town tomorrow. Location of the
new business will be in the build:
ing owned by Harold Edwards on
Victoria Street, between Josephine
Street and Diagonal Road. Expect-
ed to. employ four men at the start
of operations, and possibly as
many as ten in the next few
months, the new firm will supply
service tp dealers not at present
equipped to look after their own
TV service- work. It will carry a
large stock of televisionparts of
various makes and will be equip-
ped to erect antennae for dealers
or for TV owners. The firm Tires,
ently has contracts with . three
manufacturers of tele-visien sets
to provide extra service• when
needed in an area extending from
Exeter ,to Owen Sound. It is hop-
ed that other manufacturers will
enter into agreements with the
company for similar contracts.
Owned by two London men, Rick
Sheldrick and Tex Gilburg, the
firm operated for the past four
years in London; before moving to
Wingham. — Wingham Advance -
Times.
THE LEGISLATURE
A surplus of over half a million
dollars for the Province of Ontario
was forecast by Provincial Treas-
urer Dana Porter when he present-
ed the Budget to the House last
Thursday. The. Provincial Treas-
urer announced increased expendi-
tures for education, highways and'
hospitals. He asserted that these
increases would be met without
any increase in taxation, although
he did mention in passing the in-
crease in motor 'vehicle license
fees which has already been in ef-
fect since the first of the year.
According to Mr. Porter, the
Province is in a sound financial
condition. In the past year it had
to enter the money market only
once—to raise $50,000,000 — which
was secured at 3 per cent.
Some $88.000,000 will be spent on
Ontario's highways in 1956. Money
raised through gasoline taxes and
motor vehicle license fees comes
.0 almost $150.000,000.
than to "do all the things which
we would like to do"
Previous to the introduction of
the budget, the House devoted con-
siderable time to considering the
bill to establish the Ontario Water
Resources Commission to deal with
the irrigation and sewage problems
'of the Province. The Leader of the
Opposition, Mr. Oliver, protested
that he was concerned over the
tendency of the administration to
delegate wide powers to commis-
sions which were not directly re-
sponsible to the House. In this
matter, the Opposition's objections
were supported' by the Leader of
the C.C.F., Mr. MacDonald.
There was also a flareup during
the week when Mr. Oliver attacked
the Crown Timber Act because it
gave the Minister of Lands and
Forests, too wide powers in the
disposition of Provincial lands. Af-
ter hearing 'the Opposition's objec-
tions, Mr. Frost, the Prime Minis-
ter. agreed to bring in an amend-
ment which would curb the Minis-
ter's powers as suggested by Mr.
Oliver.
The debate on the Speech from
the • Throne concluded last week.
At that time Mr. Harry Worton,
Liberal, Wellington, asserted that
he felt the Province brought great
hardship to citizens by delaying
payments from the Unsatisfied
Judgment Fund and thus forcing
them to costly litigation in order
to get paid. Mr. John Spence, Lib-
eral, Kent East, made a plea, for
marketing assistance for farmers
and for action to prevent the
spread of Lamprey damage to the
fishing in Lake Erie.
One of the largest increased ex-
penditures is for Ontario's Uni-
versities. Mr. Porter stated that
it is expected that the college en-
rolment in the Province will be
doubled within the next 10 years.
For this reason. the budget pro-
vides for an increase in the main-
tenance grants to all the universi-
ties, and in most cases, the capital
grants for expansion purposes
have been doubled.
Id 'general. Ontario's fiscal policy
will continue to be one of extreme
caution. Mr. Porter indicated that
in this period of expanding econ-
omy the government considered it
more desirable to keep taxes down'
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FAHM NEWS
The Value of Seed Cleaning
Many Canadians farmers realize
the value of clean seed, thanks to
seed drill surveys. M. E. Dodds
of the Swift Current Experimental
Farm, Canada Department of Ag-
riculture, stresses the importance
of cleaning and grading seed grain
not only to ensure a clean crop,
but also to enable the seed drill.
to be adjusted so that the correct
amount of seed may be planted
per acre.
The rates of seeding various cer-
eals have been established for the
agricultural areas of Canada bas-
ed on clean seed of 100 per cent
germination.. Combined grain con-
taining straw, chaff, broken ker-
nels and weed seeds does not meet
these requirements. An attempt
to seed this type of material at the
drill settings commonly recom-
mended per acre will result in a
considerably smaller amount of
viable seed being sown.
Seed cleaning equipment 'should
remove all foreign material and
dockage leaving only the large
plump kernels for seed. A germ-
ination test of this seed Will de-
termine the drill settings that must
be used to place the recommend-
ed amount of seed in the ground.
When cleaning seed, grain the
first adjustment„ of the fanning
mill should be for scalping, and
the removal of weed seeds and
cracked grain. Then by careful
sieve selection the large kernels
may be retained on the upper shoe
while the smaller kernels includ-
ing the shrunken ones are passed
through. If the farmcleaning
plant Consists of two .pieces of seed
Int+�eestbtBT litews pelek• .
fro* 'be7uron91tOr of‘
. 5, 50 and O Years .AAgo,
From The Huron Expositor
March 13, 031
Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell, of
Winthrop, entertained the Merry-
makers in the hall last Friday ev-
ening. A real good time was re-
ported by all.
A. Spencer, of the Bank of Com-
merce, Bayfield, returned last
Thursday from his trip to Eng-
land, and on Friday left for Ham-
ilton, to which ,place he had been
transferred.
Mr. Dan Ross, of Tuckersmith,
held a successful sale last week,
when he sold his farm to Mr. John
Tremeer.
Mr. William McGregor, of Tuck-
ersmith, has.. rented his fine farm
to Mr. Joseph McLellan.
Miss Spark, who has been spend-
ing the winter at her home in
Stratford, has returned to resume
her position. as milliner in Stew-
art Bros.' store.
Mr. Carl Aberhart, of Toronto
-Medical Collge, spent the week-
end at his home here.
Mr. and Mrs: S. W. Archibald,
who have been spending several
months in the Old. Country, re-
turned home on Thursday.
Messrs. James Chesney and
Thomas Nolan, of Toronto Uni-
versity, spent the weekend at
their homes in Tuckersmith.
Friends will be glad to know
that Mr. William Rinn, of Con-
stance, is getting along nicely
since his 'accident. A week ago
Friday, while taking some grain
to Ross McGregor's to, get chop-
ped, be upset the load "and broke
his collarbone and several ribs.
Quite a n!ember of auto loads
were storm -stayed in Brucefield
over the week -end.
Rev. I. B. Kaine and Mrs. Keine,
of Seaforth, spent last week in
Toronto.
From The Huron Expositor
March 9, 1906
Mr. Peter McKay, of the 6th
concession of Tuckersmith, recent-
ly sold a very nice eleven-months-
ol'd• bull to Mr. George Peart, of
Hibbert.
Henry Mooney, of Brussels, in-
tends leaving next week for the
West in the hope of making his
fortune.
Mr. R. Higgins, of Hensall, who
was carrying on the meat busi-
ness there recently,;, sold out to
Mr. Hugh J. McDonald and Mr.
Alex Smith, of that village, and is
now in Manitoba prospecting.
Miss Smith, of Hensall, is in To-
ronto attending the millinery op-
enings.
Mr. Milton McTaggart, of the
Township of Hay, London Road,
has rented his farm to Mr. Henry
Dougall and Mr. George F. Case.
Mr. William Anderson has sold
his farm on the third concession
of Hay to Mr. Edward Datars, of
the same township.
Miss Carrie Knight, Seaforth,
who won the Prince of Wales
Scholarship while attending' the
Collegiate Institute here, was one
of the delegates from Toronto Uni-
versity to the Students' Volunteer
convention in Nashville, Tennesee.
Mr. Charles Stewart, of the firm
of Stewart Bros., Seaforth, left this
week for Manitoba and the North-
west on a business trip.
Mrs. A. Bethune, of town, has
purchased the nicely situated and
com?rtable residence of Mr. Mar-
shall Smith, on Sparling St.
Mr. Robert McIntosh is having
a gasoline engine placed in his
blacksmith shop for the purpose
of driving his machinery for turn-
ing, drilling and • sharpening lawn
mowers.
Thirty horses, all belonging to
one buyer, passed through Hen-
sall one morning this week. They
were•all designed for shipment to
the Northwest.
cleaning equipment such as a Car-
ter disk or indent cylinder in addi-
tion to a fanning mill, the grading
is relatively simple since the disk
and cylinder are designed to make
this separation.
After the cleaning and grading
operation the seed will be of uni-
form size and shape and will pro-
duce strong vigorous plants. Test
runs with seeding implements will
determine the setting to be used,
and the farmer will be more confi-
dent as to the accuracy of his
drill. Planting the proper quan-
tity of good clean seed grain' will
increase yields at harvest time.
$ $
Efficiency in Poultry
Meat Production
In recent years, there has been
a pronounced trend toward the
production of poultry meat as
broilers rather than mature roas-
ters, and this has had a profound
effect upon efficiency of produ -
tion of poultry meat. This effect
has been brought about chiefly as
a result of the development of
improved meat strains of birds
capable of making very rapid
gains in weight during early life,
and through the formulation of
feed mixtures which tests have
shown to be convertible into
weight gain with efficiency much
in excess of that possible only a
few years ago. Better manage-
ment, in -such forms as improved
housing, .equipment,- and disease
co tree, has,';also played a lesser
but nevertheless . ,ii nportant • port.
As 2,00E, dein in body •weight
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Inthe recent' public speaki g oorppetition,'rbeld at the Seaforth
Public School, winners were Foam 14..„1.2ean and, Dianne McCabe.
(By DIANNE McCABE)
Mr. chairman, ladies and gentle-
men 4isd fellow pupils The topic
which I have chosen to speak
about this evening is "William
Shakespeare and Some of His
Works
In reading about Shakespeare I
found it very interesting ,and hope
that I may be able to tell you a
little about him, the times in which
he lived, and some of his Plays,
which, perhaps, you did not know
before.
Shakespeare was born at Strat-
ford -on -Avon in Worwickshire, Eng-
land, April 23, 1564. As a boy he
went to Grammar School at Strat-
ford to learn to read and write,
and to learn the Latin language
and read some of the Latin auth-
ors in the original.
Close to Stratford was the For-
est of Arden, and at one time the
late Sir Arthur Quiller -Couch was
visiting this beautiful forest where
Shakespeare used to play as. a boy.
He . hoped that by examining the
scenes of Shakespeare's boyhood,
he would get a better understand-
ing of the great poet. "Ultimately,"
he writes, "we passed from a slug-
gish brook to a pleasant expanded
river, flowing between wide
lawns.' This was Arden, the for-
est of Arden, and Shakespeare's
very Arden." In the lovely wood-
land scenes of this forest (though
he places it in French Flanders).
Shakespeare_ gives us the real set-
ting of his delightful comedy, "As
You Like It," Here, away .from
the pomp and envious court, the
little band of exiles `fleet the time
carelessly as they did in the gol-
den world'.
"Their life exempt'_.from public
haunts,
Finds tongues in trees, books
and in,running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in
everything."
About the year 1586, Shakespeare
left Stratford and went to London,
where he lived for about 25 years.
These were the years in which he
learned from the bustle and activi-
ties of the life around him. He
came across sailors and travellers
from far distant lands and listen-
ed eagerly to all the tales . they.
had to • tell him and gathered a
good deal of material for his plays.
He also became a member of a
famous company of actors, The
Lord • Chamberlain's men, and it
was for this company that he
wrote many of his plays. These
men and Shakespeare put up the
money to build a new playhouse—
the famous Globe Theatre.
Yet even in his London days,
Shakespeare's heart was in his na-
tive Stratford and the Arden for-
est, and from the forest settings
of Arden, Shakespeare introduces
us to the whole court of the fairy
world, in "Midsummer Night's
Dream." There is a fairy king
Oberon and his Queen Titania.
The fairy king and queen are jeal-
ous of each other, as mortals so
often are. They quarrel so violent-
ly that their attendant elves
"for fear,
Creep into acorn -cups and hide
them there."
It is interesting to learn about
the conditions which the people of
Shakespeare's day lived. Houses
had become much more refined
and comfortable than they had
been' inFeudal times- "These Eng-
lish," said a Spaniard of some im-
portance in Queen Mary's the First
reign, "have their houses made of
sticks and dirt." As timber grew
plentifully all over England, people
began to learn to make their
houses out of this timber, especial-
ly oak. Oak replaced the beaten
mud and lime of which the floors
(Continued on Page 5)
From The Huron Expositor
March 11. 1881
Mr. John Nott, V.S., left Brus-
sels on Thursday for Dakota., with
a carload of horses.
Williams & .Son, wagonmakers,
are building a large shope on Mill
Street in Brussels, opposite their
present stand. P. Thomson has
the contract.
We understand that a townsman
of Hensall; Mr.• William Carlisle,
has lately sold his valuable, prop-
erty on King St., well known as
the Bending Factory property, to
Mr. Beattie, of Seaforth, who, we
are informed, intends turning it
into a woollen factory, an industry
much wanted in Hensall village.
Last week Mr. Thompson Morri-
son, of McKillop, sold to Mr. Geo.
Fulton, who is at present staying
at Clinton, a team of very hand-
some horses, for the sum of $320.
Mr. Fulton intends taking them to
the States with him, where he has
a large farm.
Mr. Walter Richardson, of Grey,
has moved on to his farm on the
Huron Road, Hullett, which he'pur-
chased from Mr. William Fowler.
A. G. McDougall & Co., Seaforth,
have awarded the, contract for the
re -erection of their store on the
McIntosh property to Mr. JQohn
Lyons, -fdr -the sum of $2,100.
There are over 100 pupils now
attending Seaforth High School:
We are glad to state that this
school is gradually becoming more
and more popular with students.
Mr. Andrew Calder has now got
his neW photograph gallery in
Scott's blbck in full operation.
A harried business executive
went to his physician to get a pre-
scription for sleeping pills only to
find that he was allergic to seda-'
tives.
"What about some of this twi-
light sleep I've read about?" he
asked the doctor.
"Oh, that's only for labor,,y was
the reply.
"(food heavens!" exclaimed the
exeeutiVe, "haven't you `anything:
1oh management?"
(By PEARN McLEAN)
Mr. chairman, ladies •and gentle-
men, teachers and fellow pupils:
The topic I have chosen is, "Sea-•
forth Old Boys' Reunion."
Anyone coming into Seaforth be-
tween 'July 30 and August 3, 1955,
might well wonder just what was
going on. This usually quiet coun-•
try town had suddenly taken on a
complexion of a busy metropolis
and a hepped-up summer resort
combined.
On Saturday, July 30, instead of
the main streets being moderate-
ly deserted, they were packed with
cars and people. The noon train,
;usually met by one or two people,
attracted so much attention that
access to and from the station was
literally cut off.
Sunday, July'31, morning services
on the churches found these wor-
thy edifices packed to almost be-
yond capacity. In the afternoon
the streets, deserted on even cool-
er Sunday afternoons,' were a hive
of activity.
Monday, August 1, saw in the
morning, one of the largest ar-1
happiest throngs to ever converge'
on a school building, gather at the
Seaforth and District High School,
And in the afternoon the streets
were jammed for one of the fin-
sst parades'ever seen anywhere,
Tuesday and Wednesday, in spite
of the almost unbearable heat, saw
people everywhere. Late Wednes-
day evening the Main Street of
this staid town, witnessed a py-
jama parade, ,
All through those five days peo-
ple could be seen everywhere 'gayly
greeting one another. Houses and
streets were decorated, a n d
throughout the nights in many
homes, doors were never closed,
and lights never dimmed.„ Long
after normal bedtime, people could
be seen happily chatting on lawns
and verandas.
This was Seaforth's Old Boys'
Reunion. It all had- a meaning
and fulfilled a purpose.
Sinse Seaforth popped up be-
tween too already flourishing com-
munities, Harpurhey to . the west.
and Egmondville to the south, back
,in 1855, it has been the trading.
point for all the people living in.
the rich agricultural land 'that sur-
rounds the town. Seaforth church-
es and schools have drawn as;
many from the surrounding area
as from within its own boundaries.
Since the town's beginning, indus-
try has flourished. Many of the
industries came and went with
the markets for their products, but
each brought new craftsmen and
their families. Sports have always
played a prominent part in the
town's life. The Seaforth Fire Bri-
gade made world records. Foot-
ball,hockey, lacrosse and ball
teams have all brought champion-
ships.. These are but a few of the
ties that bind people throughout.
the world with this small com-
munity,
It is only natural that in looking.
back over their lives, people re-
member the places they have been,
the old friends they have had, the
odd incidents they have enjoyed,
and it is also natural that they
want to go back to those places.
renew the old acquaintances and
recount past triumps and pleasant -
memories. The people that jam-
med the town of Seaforth during
the reunion 'were people who had
such ties with this community.
Some came to see definite friends
or relatives; others, hoping to find
some old cronie—just to talk over
old times. a few to read an in-
scription on a tombstone, or find:
a certain house where maybe
grandfather and grandmother once
lived. They came during the re -
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